Path In Mac Osx

10.2 doesn't share your drives on the network, just the Public folder. If you want to make all your drives available, you can do it through the Terminal. Open Terminal and type; cd /etc sudo pico smb.conf ---------------------------------------------------------- You'll be prompted for the password. You should see the following with the exception of the lines in...

I was just peeking into the Longhorn thread and thinking to myself... this is nice, but what's in store for Apple over the next few years? ...

10.2 seems to have changed the $PATH completely, not sure why. So if your applications are installed in /usr/local/bin you will not be able to run them like you did before. Just update your path to include /usr/local/bin and everything will go back to normal. As far as MySQL is concerned, it will stop functioning when you install 10.2 but its easy to make it work again. I...

instead of just 'su', you get the environment proper to the user you are suing to, i.e. PATH and HOME and such. ...

But that was the last line of a point being made. I thought I was being somewhat creative in my writing by using the capital "YOU". This was directed at your post. ...

presumably if you have OS9 in your labs now, then you have solutions for preventing problems of the sort that fryke and buc99 describe. i know the macs at my shcool did. ...

I think its because my default PATH is messed up in some way still.... ...

Hey there, Well, for starters you can check the man pages. They take a bit of getting used to -- but once you have, they're invaluable. Secondly, the backslash notation for paths is Windows specific. Most other OSs and standards use forward slashes. PLUS: the way that OSX requires you to specify paths to network resources (e.g. smb://server/path/to) is (I'm guessing)...

bin folder called "demac" and "tomac". They actually create a backup copy just in case, and then make the new file the same name as the old. ...

Still trying to troubleshoot and having no luck. Since I can ping the Mac from the PC I figure it has to be in the SAMBA configuration, but I could be wrong. ...